If you’re a fan of Japanese horror films of the last 20 years, you probably have director Hideo Nakata to thank. Way back in 1998, the filmmaker helmed what is seen as perhaps the most popular J-horror film of all time, “Ring.” And now, over two decades later, he returns to the franchise that launched a million sequels for the upcoming “Sadako.”

It appears that not even Japan is immune to the latest craze of reboots and revivals.

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Halloween is now less than a week away, but Hollywood has mostly failed to deliver on the scary movie front this year. “Ouija: Origin Of Evil” is better than you might imagine, and “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is… a movie with Halloween in the title. But otherwise, from arthouses to multiplexes, there are slim pickings, unfortunately (Tom Hanks has a movie out, but sadly he plays boring old professor Robert Langdon, rather than David S.

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It’s the beginning of the spookiest month of the year, so it’s no accident that this week will see the release of one of the best horror films of the year, Babak Anvari‘s “Under the Shadow” (our review). It was well received at Sundance and throughout the year at its various festival berths, but if you haven’t heard as much about it as you did about, say, “The Babadook” or “The Witch,” there’s a simple reason: although it’s a U.K.

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